Early Results Show Alliance Party
Leading Argentina's Midterm Vote

A Wall Street Journal Online News Roundup

Updated Oct. 14, 2001 9:30 p.m. ET

BUENOS AIRES -- The initial tally of Sunday's midterm legislative vote indicated that, as expected, President Fernando de la Rua's Alliance coalition was ahead in the Argentine capital while the opposition Peronist party led the province of Buenos Aires, according to Interior Ministry figures.

Up for grabs Sunday are the entire Senate, 127 of the 257 seats in the Chamber of Deputies, at least 11 provincial legislatures, a provincial...